From title page: By Courtney Stanhope Kenny, LL.D., F.B.A., Downing Professor
of the Laws of England; Chairman of Cambs Quarter Sessions; Late M.P. for
Barnsley.

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Rules of Evidence Peculiar to Criminal Law
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Hence in very grave
cases English judges frequently urge a prisoner who pleads guilty
to withdraw that plea. Indeed in New York the Code of Criminal Procedure
forbids any conviction upon a plea of Guilty where the crime charged
is punishable by death or by penal servitude for life (s. 332).
Hence when Czolgosz, on his trial in 1901 for the murder of President
McKinley, pleaded “Guilty,” a plea of “Not Guilty” was nevertheless
entered.